Patents by Inventor Hee-sook Park
Hee-sook Park has filed for patents to protect the following inventions. This listing includes patent applications that are pending as well as patents that have already been granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).
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Patent number: 11972721Abstract: A display device is disclosed that includes pixels, a memory, and a degradation compensator. The pixels include light emitting elements. The memory is operable to store degradation information including degradation degrees of the light emitting elements. The degradation compensator is operable to receive the degradation information and generate output grayscales by changing each of input grayscales of the pixels in proportion to each of the degradation degrees. The degradation compensator includes a degradation information changer for changing the degradation information by decreasing a degradation degree having a variation greater than a threshold value among variations of the degradation degrees.Type: GrantFiled: September 20, 2022Date of Patent: April 30, 2024Assignee: Samsung Display Co., Ltd.Inventors: Jae Hoon Lee, Kyoung Ho Lim, Seung Ho Park, Hee Sook Park, Sang Myeon Han
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Patent number: 11942016Abstract: A display device includes: a gain provider configured to set a time point elapsed by a set period from a time point at which a first region of an input image is detected as a still region, as a set time, and to gradually decrease a gain value from the set time; and a grayscale converter configured to generate an output image by applying the gain value to the first region and a second region including a peripheral region of the first region among the input image, wherein the gain provider is configured to set the set period differently according to size of grayscale values in the first region.Type: GrantFiled: February 7, 2022Date of Patent: March 26, 2024Assignee: Samsung Display Co., Ltd.Inventors: Hee Sook Park, Ki Hyun Pyun
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Publication number: 20240091235Abstract: The present invention relates to use of a compound of chemical formula 1 or a pharmaceutically acceptable salt thereof as a selective agonist of the melanocortin-4-receptor (MC4R).Type: ApplicationFiled: December 21, 2021Publication date: March 21, 2024Applicant: LG CHEM, LTD.Inventors: Hee Dong PARK, Su Jin YEO, Hyun Seo PARK, Jin Sook PARK, Hye Won AHN
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Publication number: 20240096258Abstract: A display device includes blocks each including two or more pixels commonly coupled to a first power line, and a first power voltage controller for determining a margin value of a first power voltage supplied to the first power line, based on load values of the blocks. The first power voltage controller determines the load values based on grayscale values of the pixels included in each of the blocks. The magnitude of the first power voltage is determined to become smaller as the margin value becomes larger. The margin value includes a first margin value. The first power voltage controller determines the first margin value according to a degree of distribution of load values of first blocks arranged in a first direction among the blocks.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 29, 2023Publication date: March 21, 2024Inventors: Ki Hyun PYUN, Hee Sook PARK
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Patent number: 11935488Abstract: A display device includes a display panel, a power supply a current measurer, a controller, and a sensor. The display panel includes pixels connected between first and second power lines. The power supply applies power voltages to the first and second power lines. The current measurer measures a current applied to the display panel from the power supply through the first and second power lines. The controller outputs a first sensing control signal indicating whether to sense a voltage-current characteristic of the light emitting element of at least one of the pixels based on a measured current. The sensor senses the voltage-current characteristic of the light emitting element in response to the first sensing control signal.Type: GrantFiled: November 2, 2021Date of Patent: March 19, 2024Assignee: SAMSUNG DISPLAY CO., LTD.Inventors: Ki Hyun Pyun, Hee Sook Park
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Patent number: 11881165Abstract: The present disclosure provides a display device. The display device includes a gain provider for gradually decreasing a gain value from a first time when a first period elapses from a time at which an enable signal is generated, and a plurality of pixels for receiving data voltages determined by the gain value and the input grayscale values. The gain provider determines a length of the first period according to a first load value based on the input grayscale values at the time at which the enable signal is generated.Type: GrantFiled: October 27, 2021Date of Patent: January 23, 2024Assignee: Samsung Display Co., Ltd.Inventors: Ki Hyun Pyun, Hee Sook Park
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Patent number: 11875740Abstract: A display device includes a display panel including a plurality of pixels and partitioned into a plurality of blocks including at least one of the pixels, a timing controller configured to receive input image data from an outside source and generate scaled image data by scaling the input image data using a scale factor, a data driver configured to generate a data signal corresponding to the scaled image data and supply the data signal to the pixels, and a logic circuit configured to generate the scale factor based on the input image data, first weight data, and second weight data different from the first weight data.Type: GrantFiled: December 30, 2021Date of Patent: January 16, 2024Assignee: SAMSUNG DISPLAY CO., LTD.Inventors: Ki Hyun Pyun, Hee Sook Park
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Patent number: 11875732Abstract: A screen saver controller includes a load calculator for generating load data of each of a plurality of panel blocks included in a display panel based on input image data, a life calculator for generating life data of each of the panel blocks based on a deterioration stress value accumulated in the display panel, a first logic circuit for receiving the load data and the life data, and generating operation data based on the load data and the life data and a second logic circuit for receiving the input image data and the operation data, and generating screen saver data based on the input image data and the operation data. The screen saver controller adjusts a luminance of the display panel based on the screen saver data when operating in a screen saver mode for performing a screen saver operation.Type: GrantFiled: July 28, 2021Date of Patent: January 16, 2024Assignee: SAMSUNG DISPLAY CO., LTD.Inventors: Hee Sook Park, Ki Hyun Pyun
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Patent number: 11854454Abstract: A display device includes blocks each including two or more pixels commonly coupled to a first power line, and a first power voltage controller for determining a margin value of a first power voltage supplied to the first power line, based on load values of the blocks. The first power voltage controller determines the load values based on grayscale values of the pixels included in each of the blocks. The magnitude of the first power voltage is determined to become smaller as the margin value becomes larger. The margin value includes a first margin value. The first power voltage controller determines the first margin value according to a degree of distribution of load values of first blocks arranged in a first direction among the blocks.Type: GrantFiled: July 29, 2020Date of Patent: December 26, 2023Assignee: Samsung Display Co., Ltd.Inventors: Ki Hyun Pyun, Hee Sook Park
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Publication number: 20230410714Abstract: A display device includes a display panel including a plurality of pixels, a timing controller, a data driver and a scale factor. The timing controller calculates a frame load value corresponding to an image frame of input image data and generates image data by scaling grayscale values of the input image data using a scale factor. The data driver generates a data signal corresponding to the image data and supplies the data signal to the pixels. The scale factor generating circuit sets a reference range based on a temperature of the display panel and a global current value that flows through the pixels, and generates the scale factor included within the reference range based on the frame load value and the global current value.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 26, 2023Publication date: December 21, 2023Inventors: Ki Hyun PYUN, Hee Sook PARK
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Patent number: 11790849Abstract: A display device includes: a display panel including pixels; a timing controller configured to generate image data based on input image data; a data driver configured to generate a data signal corresponding to the image data and supplying the data signal to the pixels; a power supply configured to supply a first power supply voltage to the display panel; and a power controller configured to calculate a load value and a peak grayscale of the entire display panel based on the input image data, receive feedback voltages of the first power supply voltage from relatively lower quality areas in which IR drop of the first power supply voltage occurs relatively more frequently, and generate a power control signal for changing the level of the first power supply voltage based on the load value, the peak grayscale, and the feedback voltages.Type: GrantFiled: December 30, 2021Date of Patent: October 17, 2023Assignee: SAMSUNG DISPLAY CO., LTD.Inventors: Ki Hyun Pyun, Hee Sook Park
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Patent number: 11694623Abstract: A display device may include a display unit, a signal controller, and a sensing unit. The display unit may include pixels. The signal controller may select a first pixel set from the pixel according to ages of the pixels determined based on an image signal. The sensing unit may be electrically connected to each of the display unit and the signal controller and may sense deterioration information of one or more pixels included in the first pixel set for a vertical blank period in which the display unit displays no image.Type: GrantFiled: August 16, 2021Date of Patent: July 4, 2023Assignee: Samsung Display Co., Ltd.Inventors: Ki Hyun Pyun, Hee Sook Park
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Patent number: 11682362Abstract: An afterimage compensator and a display device having the same are disclosed, and the afterimage compensator includes an image analyzer configured to determine an amount of image variation based on a change of image data, and an image shifter configured to adjust a shift interval, which is an interval between time points at which an image is shifted, according to the amount of image variation.Type: GrantFiled: August 13, 2021Date of Patent: June 20, 2023Assignee: Samsung Display Co., Ltd.Inventors: Jae Hoon Lee, Seung Ho Park, Hee Sook Park, Kyoung Ho Lim
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Publication number: 20230138436Abstract: A display device is disclosed that includes pixels, a memory, and a degradation compensator. The pixels include light emitting elements. The memory is operable to store degradation information including degradation degrees of the light emitting elements. The degradation compensator is operable to receive the degradation information and generate output grayscales by changing each of input grayscales of the pixels in proportion to each of the degradation degrees. The degradation compensator includes a degradation information changer for changing the degradation information by decreasing a degradation degree having a variation greater than a threshold value among variations of the degradation degrees.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 20, 2022Publication date: May 4, 2023Inventors: Jae Hoon LEE, Kyoung Ho LIM, Seung Ho PARK, Hee Sook PARK, Sang Myeon HAN
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Patent number: 11615730Abstract: A display device includes a display panel having a plurality of pixels, a controller configured to determine a peak luminance based on a target luminance and a black duty ratio that is a ratio of a black insertion period to a sum of an image display period and the black insertion period, to determine gray-luminance information representing a plurality of luminances respectively corresponding to a plurality of gray levels based on the peak luminance and a target gamma value, and to generate gray-voltage information representing a plurality of voltage levels respectively corresponding to the plurality of gray levels based on a target white color coordinate and the gray-luminance information, a gray voltage generator configured to generate a plurality of gray voltages having the plurality of voltage levels based on the gray-voltage information, and a data driver configured to provide the plurality of gray voltages corresponding to output image data as data voltages to the plurality of pixels in the image displayType: GrantFiled: January 20, 2022Date of Patent: March 28, 2023Assignee: SAMSUNG DISPLAY CO., LTD.Inventors: Ki Hyun Pyun, Hee Sook Park
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Publication number: 20220319439Abstract: A display device includes a display panel, a power supply a current measurer, a controller, and a sensor. The display panel includes pixels connected between first and second power lines. The power supply applies power voltages to the first and second power lines. The current measurer measures a current applied to the display panel from the power supply through the first and second power lines. The controller outputs a first sensing control signal indicating whether to sense a voltage-current characteristic of the light emitting element of at least one of the pixels based on a measured current. The sensor senses the voltage-current characteristic of the light emitting element in response to the first sensing control signal.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 2, 2021Publication date: October 6, 2022Inventors: Ki Hyun PYUN, Hee Sook PARK
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Patent number: 11450260Abstract: A display device includes a set period setting unit for setting, as a set time, a time for which a set period elapses from a time at which a first area included in an input image is detected as a still area, and a gain generator for gradually decreasing an initial level of a gain value down to a saturation level having a lowest value of the gain value from the set time. The set period setting unit differently sets the saturation level of the gain value and a final level of the gain value, corresponding to grayscale values of the first area and a load value of the input image. The load value is an average value of grayscale values of an entirety of an area of the input image.Type: GrantFiled: September 20, 2021Date of Patent: September 20, 2022Assignee: SAMSUNG DISPLAY CO., LTD.Inventors: Hee Sook Park, Kyoung Ho Lim, Seung Ho Park, Jae Hoon Lee
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Publication number: 20220262307Abstract: A display device includes a display panel including a plurality of pixels and partitioned into a plurality of blocks including at least one of the pixels, a timing controller configured to receive input image data from an outside source and generate scaled image data by scaling the input image data using a scale factor, a data driver configured to generate a data signal corresponding to the scaled image data and supply the data signal to the pixels, and a logic circuit configured to generate the scale factor based on the input image data, first weight data, and second weight data different from the first weight data.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 30, 2021Publication date: August 18, 2022Inventors: Ki Hyun PYUN, Hee Sook PARK
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Publication number: 20220215803Abstract: A display device includes: a display panel including pixels; a timing controller configured to generate image data based on input image data; a data driver configured to generate a data signal corresponding to the image data and supplying the data signal to the pixels; a power supply configured to supply a first power supply voltage to the display panel; and a power controller configured to calculate a load value and a peak grayscale of the entire display panel based on the input image data, receive feedback voltages of the first power supply voltage from relatively lower quality areas in which IR drop of the first power supply voltage occurs relatively more frequently, and generate a power control signal for changing the level of the first power supply voltage based on the load value, the peak grayscale, and the feedback voltages.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 30, 2021Publication date: July 7, 2022Inventors: Ki Hyun PYUN, Hee Sook Park
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Publication number: 20220198998Abstract: A display device includes a set period setting unit for setting, as a set time, a time for which a set period elapses from a time at which a first area included in an input image is detected as a still area, and a gain generator for gradually decreasing an initial level of a gain value down to a saturation level having a lowest value of the gain value from the set time. The set period setting unit differently sets the saturation level of the gain value and a final level of the gain value, corresponding to grayscale values of the first area and a load value of the input image. The load value is an average value of grayscale values of an entirety of an area of the input image.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 20, 2021Publication date: June 23, 2022Inventors: Hee Sook PARK, Kyoung Ho LIM, Seung Ho PARK, Jae Hoon LEE